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the best thing about independence day is watermellon

maybe some sneaky germans try to enter the usa via mexico? lol passports are just another gimmick rackett to make $$, i think they cost 165$? more nations= more futbol teams!

and reagon said he was a hamburg-er. no more national boundaries, I like that idea but just as likely will be further more define (restricted?) borders. it is only recently that an american needed a passport to enter canada or mexico, or lots of places, that require documentation now. the ussr empire slpit up, Canada thinks about it, and even the usa could divide. didnt we just have talk of texas leaving?

well oiled machine probably does fit tho, 4 straight semis, 16 straight quarters. and I think brazil paid a heavy price for their 'tactics' against columbia. this is the only futbol I have watched since 98. but from my view messi looks better than robben. I am sure passions will be running high with all teams and fans left in this. Germany handled france easier than I expected and costa rica hung in there with the dutch.

well one dragon made a grand entrance, 200 replies!! lol even had to move his lobby post to a ppf then he was banned so beware of grand entrances enter the gates of Tao ! edit>> on second thought --- enter the gates of Tao Bums lol

its getting just about crunch time, I would say. I had been pulling for the unlikely --- costa rica well they gave it a good ride. those blue striped shirts are still in it. looks like a heavy weight final four. not too surprising

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i think its just as hard to find the good student as it is to find the good teacher. and there is the aspect of mutual benefit to consider. the tao has a way of bringing the right student to the right teacher or the right teacher to the right student. teaching for pay is ok (til the tax man caught up with it, but i digress lol) volunteering is also ok. sometimes its good just to have someone else to play around with with this stuff. if you enjoy teaching,(and what you are teaching) it isnt just about the pay is it? what are you teaching?

i look forward to the france-germany match. from my novice eyes it seems 4 of the top 5 teams are in the same bracket. i do like how the game continues to flow, it is largely what is attractive about the "beautiful game" if the fouled player had to take the penalty kick it wouldnt slow the game, it would be automatic--always fouled player takes penalty kick. lol i realize i am not going to change the rules.. germany and france have displayed skill, so did brazil (long accurate kick passes to team mates) but this seems a game of who is the best conditioned, so many late goals deciding the outcome. dont prepare for a 90 minute game when you will be playing 120

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dutch-player-admits-flop-may-141128993.html shouldnt fifa use instant replay to decide on decisions that will decide the outcome of a game? should a flopper recieve a yellow or red card?

columbia looks good , right? do they have a chance against brazil? chile dang near pulled it off. i thought the netherlands caught a huge break with that foul called , looked like he flopped to me, but how come he wasnt the one to take the penalty kick? kinda like shaq getting fouled and larry bird able to shoot the free throws,,, i get it that he was in the box close to the goal when the "foul" occured,,anyways. go costa rica!!

all the matches matter now, right? i dont think spain has much of a chance really, and shows why we cannot look to past performance being a valid indication, right? no one answered about the angel devil thing between korea and belgium,,,,, some of those belgium devil fans looked festively entertaining tho,, will begium be a player short against usa? this red card thing is a bit confusing. yes, i get it about germany not wanting to risk injury on a sloppy field. now it is all out full tilt, take no prisoner mentality right? hard to pick against brasil i think. but if anyone can win it on brazillian soil,,(think blue stripes) this soccer fad, i hope it catches on, it was like no one had to go to work if the usa was playing,,,,, does everyone have netherlands beating mexico? in the round of 16 anything can happen i bet edit>>oh yeah a brit did win wimbeldon(finally) good show!! watching patiently all those 77 years paid off!!

i am new to this soccer stuff, but the guys who wear the blue striped shirts look decent,,,i thought everyone was raving about the dutch? i dont see america going very far now, i think that already accomplished their goal. third time biter? they should pull out his teeth , i think germany barely got by usa, i am not too confident for them. the mexican goalie spoke confidently,, but i think i stick with the blue stripers

so you english still watch the world cup even if your team is no longer in it?? how come all the south american teams get to play each other in the knockout round? that means some of their teams of course will advance. edit>> nevermind about watching, i just realized you watch wimbledon all these years without your own in it either.

then the guy who did the biting was complaining that other player( the bitten one) had hurt his teeth,,, barbaric game i think, except they call it a match, like chess or sth and the koreans, i mean they had more players than their opponent and they still couldnt win, not sure what was up with the devil/angel thing ? but angel and devil were both red.

i doubt i have ever been accused of being "wiser" gatito. i probably will open it eventually, maybe on independance day? if i owned any computers i would start recycling them now lol i am curious why the irs would send a registered letter to someone who hasnt had any income and i wouldnt be much of an anarchist if i start jumping thru government hoops, i havnt lost any sleep over it

such a charming couple and i am not biased becoz just their office sent me a registered letter yesterday, i aint gonna open it tho

i coulda put this in the mystical poetry thread,,yes, i coulda (who woulda stopped me?) but this thread will do,,needed some bump here anyways ok, here goes! a mystical poem by that mystic poet, who is sometimes referred to as 'uncle fred" How long have you been sitting on your misfortune? watch out! you will yet hatch an egg, a basilisk egg from your long misery. Why is Zarathustra prowling along the mountain? mistrustful, ulcerous, gloomy, long in ambush--- but suddenly lightning, bright, terrible, a bolt to heaven from the abyss: even the mountain's intestines quiver. where hatred and lightning have become one, a curse--- on the mountains dwells Zarathustra's wrath; a thunderhead, he prowls along. Take cover, whoever still has a blanket left! Into bed with you, milksops! Now thunder is rolling across the vaulting, now whatever is beam or wall is trembling, now lightning is flashing and sulphur-yellow truths-- Zarathrustra is cursing--- this coin with which all the world makes payment--- fame--- with gloves i touch this coin, with disgust i grind it underfoot. Who wants to be paid? Those for sale. with fat hands The venal grasp for this vulgar tin clink of fame! Do you wish to buy them? they are all for sale. but offer them much! Clink with a full purse! otherwise you strengthen them, otherwise you strengthen their virtue. They are all virtuous. Fame and virtue rhyme. as long as the world lives, it pays for cackling of virtue with the clacking of fame; the world lives of this noise. Before all who are virtuous I wish to be guilty, be called guilty of every great guilt! Before all the megaphones of fame my ambition becomes a worm--- among those i crave to be the lowest. This coin with which all the world makes payment--- fame--- with gloves I touch this coin, with disgust i grind it underfoot. Silent! Of great things---I see what is great--- one should be silent or speak with greatness: Speak with greatness, my enchanted wisdom! I look up--- see billowing seas of light: O night, O silence, O noise still as death! I see a sign--- from the farthest distance a constellation sinks slowly toward me, sparkling. Highest star of being! Table of eternal images! You come to me? What no one has beheld, your mute beauty--- what? it does not flee from my eyes? Shield of necessity! Table of eternal images! but you know: what all hate, I alone love, that you are eternal that you are necessary! My love is ignited eternally only by necessity. Shield of necessity! Highest star of being --- not reached by any wish, not stained by any No, eternal Yes of being--- eternally I am your Yes: for I love you, o eternity!

when asked what the secret of longevity life was ? george burns answered "keep breathing"

i once heard someone say that looking at any garden at the opportune/right moment would remind one of paradise.

"Although economic growth in the United States continues to be as strong as in many other countries, or stronger, a small percentage of American households is fully benefiting from it." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html?_r=0

http://www.amazon.com/Imagination-Medicine-Stephen-Aizenstat/dp/1882670620/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399200611&sr=1-1&keywords=imagination+and+medicine

i posted jfk quote earlier in the thread and now i will add one from IKE i like ike and i want to consider that jfk and ike as presidents from different parties(giants that they both were imo) could not stop the madness from happening, the madness that grows and grows and today is still growing "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." this is a quote from a republican president IKE the right has swung so far to madness, another madness will step in to make the correction, seriously you should shudder at the thought. i have thought some about what ralis was saying about fascism coming from the right in the style of mussloini, but i think its worse now that what ralis was saying. the fascism of mussloini is kiddie fascism to what we are now under,, benito at least had the corporations serving the state and not the state serving the corporations at the expense of the rest of us hypocrisy is the road to power and the left in america is every bit as guilty as the right is at what point will we stop trying to elect the lesser of the two evils? we really like living in a land ruled by evil, i reckon north korea just released a report about u.s. human rights abuses, and many will say consider the source and dismiss it out of hand.. we are so content to sit here with the wool pulled down over our eyes,, here is a quote by victor hugo , i like victor as much as i like ike " an invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come" bellow is a portrait of an old doctor

"Texas Gov. Rick Perry ® seemed to suggest Wednesday that any bloodshed spilled in the Bundy Ranch standoff will be the fault of the federal government." strongly agree and to the NYT article saying bundy is a pro-slavery racist, what has that got to do with the price of tea in nevada? the fact is he doesnt own slaves, does he? so who cares a ranchers rambling thoughts. edit>>isnt it in fact a fascist tactic to try and paint someone as the boogie man?

50 photos that tell "billions" of wor(l)ds http://news.msn.com/science-technology/stellar-photos-from-the-hubble